The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-12-29
ATLANTIS HTGR LICENSE.


Under the above heading the Kansas
City Journal has the following edi-
torial:
Atlanta has high license law,
which, if the expression may be par
doned, is hummer" When prohi-
bition was defeated in Atlanta, after
one of the warmest election fights ever
known, it still remained for the COM
mon council of the city to frame the
provisions of the license law, and the
common council had prohibition ma
jority, who proposed to make the law
as stringent as possible. However, as
the ordinance was passed by unani-
nous vote, we take it for granted that
the sentiment in Atlanta is quite gem
eral in favor of the very strict law un-
der which saloon keepers may DOW take
out licenses to retail spirituOus liquors.
The license fee is fixed at 81 800 per an
mum. This at once wipes out of exist
ence the lower class saloons, and what
are known as "gallon licenses" have
been revoked entirely. For the saloons
which can afford to pay license fee of
81 500 the regulations contained in the
new ordinance are very strict. We
quote from summary published by
| the Chicago Tribune:
1.-The law leaves il optional with the
mayor and council whether any licenses
shall be granted at all within certain
/ limits of the city, which we presume
| include its worst districts. Every per-
son who applies for a license will have
| to prove himself to be of good charac-
ter, sobriety, and discretion. He will
have to file with the clerk written
! description of his place and the ailidl-
| Wits of two good citizens that he is BIT
to be trusted with license. His bond
for 81 900 will have to be signed by two
freeholders, who are not interested in
the application, which will shut out
liquor manufacturers, and no person
can be security on more than one bond
at time. No license will be transfer
able or cover more than one place
The saloonkeeper will have to keep an
open house, unobstructed by screens
blinds or painted glass, so that the
public can at any time know who the
patrons of his place are. He cannot
keep his saloon in a basement. He
cannot allow gambling, cards
billiards, pool or tenpinS to bC
played in his saloon. If
drunken person is found on the prem
ises his license will be revoked. HC
cannot open earlier than 5 a. m, o.
keep open later than IL p. m. He car
not sell liquor on Christmas day or Sun
day, and on other holidays the mayor
may order him to close if he Is so dis
posed. He will have to put out sigI
bearing the words, Licensed Retailer
of SpirituOus Liquors" If any person
is convicted twice of drunkenness or
the streets, his name and locality vii
be furnished to every licensed dealer il
the city, and any one of them selling
liquor to such person again will have
his license revoked at once, and any sa
loon keeper who is convicted of disc
beYing any section of the bill will also
forfeit his license
Atlanta has tried to enforce prohibi
ton and failed. She now has saloons
which are compelled to the utmost
publicity, are obliged to pay very higl
license fee, and are in danger of losinI
their licenses altogether unless they
are run in respectable manner. W.
believe that this experiment will b,
more successful than the former one.